Art

Fri 06 July

Piet Zwart Institute: Fine Art & Media Design and Communication

The graduation shows of the Master Fine Art and Master Media Design and Communication programmes of the Piet Zwart Institute, the postgraduate institute of the Willem de Kooning Academie, will open in TENT on 6 July. For the first time, the graduation works from the Fine Art programme, led by Vivian Sky Rehberg, and Media Design and Communication programme, led by British film director Simon Pummel, can be seen in a single overview. With the cooperation of curator Christina Li.

A Map of Misreading
Master Fine Art

Eleven international artists working across a range of media present their graduation projects and a program of performances. This exhibition, which borrows its title from literary critic Harold Bloom’s book, A Map of Misreading, is an investigation of the genealogy of poetic influence.

Bloom suggested that all poets struggle (consciously or not) with the influences of their precursors. His analysis of poets’ rebellion against the overwhelming presence of respected luminaries and literary works starts from the act of creative (mis-) interpretation or misreading in order to create a productive relationship with texts. For Bloom, influence accrues through the critical misreading one undertakes while striving to translate influence into one’s own work. This graduate exhibition misreads Bloom’s line of thought and further displaces it into the field of contemporary art. Setting aside the dominant revisionist and referential tendencies that have recently emerged, it asks: how does one situate one’s own artistic voice amongst a myriad of influences and sources, both past and present, which are instrumental to one’s own artistic formation?

This exhibition attempts to chart the convergences and bifurcated pathways of these artists, and highlights how both mutual and personal artistic influences shape their artistic realities. In addition to individual artistic investigations informed by personal histories and biographies, events, symbolic structures and mass culture, the graduating Master of Fine Art students at the Piet Zwart Institute share a strong collaborative ethos that could also be interpreted through the lens of Bloom’s thesis.

Curated by Christina Li

Exception Handling
Master Media Design and Communication

The show brings together the previously distinct disciplines of Networked and Lens-Based digital media and presents work across an expanded range of disciplines. To reflect this new breadth or media practice within the department, the graduation show is an ambitious co-operation between TENT, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media and WORM: showcasing work that ranges across a triptych of short films to radio broadcasts of encrypted narrative, to steam powered analogue ‘holograms,’ with many other media-hybrids in-between.

Exception Handling is a term for a particular procedure in writing computer code: Wikipedia defines it as, “The process of responding to the occurrence, during computation, of exceptions – anomalous or exceptional situations requiring special processing – often changing the normal flow of program execution”.

It is the recognition of the anomalous and exceptional, and the devising of a ‘special processing’ that becomes the theme that threads through the work of the artists exhibited. In each case the artists seek to create a media language that allows situations ranging from the most personal and intimate to the most widely political to be researched, explored and embodied in a media object that addresses the uniqueness of the topic. These projects all seek to “change the normal flow of program execution,” and avoid mirroring the deafening barrage of cliché that forms our media landscape.

Tosti Treffer is a monthly event, where creatives have the chance to meet and enjoy a “lekker tosti” and drinks together with a relaxed atmosphere. Every first Wenesday of the month Tosti Treffer is arranged in a different location. Bring a topping for your favorite Tosti and let’s co-create culinary and creative wonders.

An artwork can be seen as a moment in which the present presents itself. It embodies the now by giving it shape, while always questioning this form simultaneously. Through this questioning, the now becomes tangible for a moment, just like the way in which one might become aware of stairs only when one of the steps is of a slightly different size.

A journey setting out from the Wilhelminapier, taking you to (dreamed) destinations. Let the wind guide you through a series of proposals for public installations, directly linked to the history of Rotterdam’s most iconic wharf. Showcasing a sound-walk, video installations and mobile audio work made by The Patching Zone.

On the occasion of his work for In Light Of 25 Years, Witte de With welcomes artist Freek Wambacq for a conversation with Samuel Saelemakers (Associate Curator Witte de With) on Thursday 2 April at 19.00 hrs.

A day to discover the best cultural hotspots of Rotterdam-Zuid. Ofcourse Wolfart-Projectspaces has their own program!
During the day Cateringa & Kompanen will try-out their “I Am Sitting In Front Of A Cooking Instruction Video” and from 19:00 on the Colectivo Aloardi hosts a musical evening.

Tussenuur presents: a live program in lounge-setting, full of inspiring lectures, music and encounters with innovative European city-makers. All of this to create a relaxed evening with a panoramic character, for everyone who wishes to view the city in a new and different way.

Performances by Carlos Salazar Lermont (VE), Olga Blázquez Sánchez (NL/ES) and ieke Trinks (NL)
Performance artist Carlos Salazar Lermont from Caracas will be in town. A good reason for us to put up this event CAPSULE. It is almost a year later that we welcome Carlos, but thanks to our dear colleagues ]performance s p a c e[ in London who managed to bring Carlos over to Europe.

Conny Beneden, Pim van Halem, Rolina Nell
Three artists with an interest in the spaciousness of new land, the uncertain future and the years of remembrance. With a short film by Conny Beneden, ink drawings by Pim van Halem and paintings from Rolina Nell.

Need for speed? Fast & furious? Designing in the highest gear, what does it do to creativity and quality? Supersonic idea generation, instant reactions to the news, media changing at an ever increasing rate. Design at Godspeed: How does it affect the maker?

On the Swan Market of 6 April UrbanFabric (by NOV’82 Architects) will launch their new collection of clocks, inspired by icons of Rotterdam. Think of the Markthal, Central Station and other famous eye-catchers of our city. On our Facebook page you can suggest which icon you’d like to see in our new collection. Not so into clocks? You can also come by at the Swan Market just to check out our awesome 3D printer!